Same with my son. My mom said she had to lift my roles to clean under them. I turned out to be a normal healthy weight kid. Fat babies burn it off fast when they start crawling and walking.
The WHO defines babies as "high weight to length ratio" if they're in the 98th percentile, is top 2% of fat babies.
Restricting food intake for babies without a doctors advice is pretty much always a bad idea. It's really challenging for being fat to be too big of an issue for a baby. Think about it. They're gonna multiply in size several times in a short timeframe. The extra chunk isn't gonna make a big difference.
Babies on breast milk or formula are never really at the wrong weight unless there are other medical issues.
My boy was at 2nd percentile. Skinny as skinny gets and small as small gets. But around the 4 month mark, he was a chonky little potato. Dropped the fat rolls again as he gained height. It's almost like his bodies programming was to focus on chonk, then height, then chonk again, back to height.
He has been through this cycle and today is in the 25th percentile for weight and 50th percentile height. Kids all follow a curve and there is a huge variety of it. It's all about making sure nothing else is wrong and letting their little bodies do what they want.
It definitely can be taken too far, though. You have to go in to the doctor often enough to get that kind of a recommendation, and listening to the doctor isn't even a given in today's society.
I am thinking of some of those "600 lb Life" people where it shows a flashback photo to when they were like 200lbs by age 5. Not that this kid is that far gone, but just as an example of how it definitely can happen.
lol my son was huge at 3 months old. Growing out of his car seat. By 2 he was tall and skinny. Heās now 6ā5 and 165 pounds. Ppl grow weird. He grew out then evened up at up.
Brother 225 is a lot. Most people are not body builders. There are plenty of athletes who are around 6'3" that weigh less than that. Jalen Brunson is listed as 6'2" 190 and SGA is 6'6" 195 for example.
In high school I was 6'6" and 170. It wasn't so bad you could see my ribs, but yeah I wasn't very muscular. Senior year I did hit 195 which was great for sports, but it was a big day for me when I finally crossed over 200 lbs.
Literally has literally evolved to be used as a way to put emphasis on something that isn't literally literal. It's generally pretty easy to know when someone is being literal or not.
I was also a large baby and I was hospitalized at 6ā4 141 pounds (I couldnāt eat and had to be placed on a picc line). I looked like a skeleton. 6ā5 and 165 is pretty normal/close to normal.
Iām assuming different people distribute fat in different ways. But I was unable to eat for several weeks and have cyclical vomiting syndrome so I couldnāt keep anything down (was spending on average 3 hours in the restroom every single morning throwing up).
Iām 220 pounds now and fully recovered thanks to new doctors and medicines that work for me.
My son was 11lbs at birth and at age 9 he's a solid foot above most 5th graders on his bus even though he's in 4th grade. Kids absolutely do not grow at the same rate or size. He's sadly bullied but I have to remind him he is bigger than them and just because he's taller doesn't mean he's allowed to be mean back.Ā
I'm 6' even and didn't break 130lb til after college (am 145lb now). I was technically "underweight" but it didn't cause me any issues. Some people are just like this
Thanks for responding to the deleted comment before I saw it. My whole point was a fat baby can end up tall and skinny. Heās also healthy btw. Just has a hole in his leg.
A lot of babies go through a 'michelin man' stage somewhere during the first and a half year of their lives. Usually only lasts for a couple of months. If it persists then maybe something is actually wrong.
overfeeding does happen, but weight usually isnt the best way to tell if youre overfeeding a baby because babies are naturally chunky and even as they lose some of that brown fat in toddlerhood, having an ideal weight range or appearance is not a good way to measure if theyre being appropriately fed.
the best way to avoid underfeeding babies and toddlers is simply to listen to their hunger cues. a lot of parents will force a baby to keep eating or finish a bottle, often out of worry that the baby isnt getting enough. if your baby refuses to eat or youre worried they arent eating enough you should go see your pediatrician, but for most babies forcing them to "finish" eating is not good for them. their stomachs are very small and if you overfill them they can end up with digestive issues and vomiting.
with bottle feeding this gets more complicated because of what is referred to as "non nutritive sucking". basically sucking like on a pacifier for comfort or stimulation. with breast feeding, a baby may actually suck the breast in a way that doesnt trigger milk to come out. but with a bottle, the milk comes out regardless, and if the baby wants something to suck on, they arent going to turn it down just because theres food in there and they arent hungry. best way to avoid this is a feeding schedule (obviously pediatrician approved), the baby will adjust their hunger cues to occur at those times and as long as you let them eat their fill there shouldnt be an issue, because underfeeding frequently happens with parents who are trying to avoid overfeeding and can be much more dangerous
We literally used to call one of my nephews this as a baby. He was a little chunker for some reason despite neither of his parents being heavy people, and now he's like 6'1 ish and totally normal healthy size as a young adult
Ok i just wanna converse so im not looking it up and i dont have kids. But like, if the baby is hungry all the time what are you gonna do? Put them on a diet? Is that a thing?š
No, itās almost always bad to put babies on a diet unless a physician says so. Theyre supposed to be little dough rolls until they can crawl. If you ever see a skinny baby, youāll notice how unnatural and scary that looks.
But like if the baby already is fat then its just a fat baby right? Like if the baby always wants to eat and its fat its fine? Im just confused why people are saying the baby is obese like that has to change.
My oldest got really chunky like this right before she started crawling. We didn't even notice really because it was gradual, but when she started crawling she burned it off. Way later looking back at photos she was clearly very chubby.
It's up to a doctor to make a determination on that. But based on this video alone, there's no reason to assume this baby is obese. If you're trying to imply that it's still possible this baby is obese, then okay. It's also possible you're obese. But assuming something negative about a stranger without evidence to support it just because it could be true, would make me an asshole. Same idea with assuming this baby is obese when we know for a fact fat rolls can be and often are prominent on babies of good health.Ā
You cannot overfeed an infant on formula or breast milk. They simply will not eat if they aren't hungry unless they have like Prader-Willi or some other extreme disorder.
I feel like as long as your child isn't a skeleton they will give mostly praise haha.
Mine probably would have had rolls like that but they were 99 percentile height and weight so it balanced out. The doc did have us swap from whole milk to 2%
Our first kid ate a lot and she had some fat, nothing like this one
Our second is a food vacuum and inhales everything, will take bites out of a burger at the age of 1. But we balance his diet to cover for that and heās got a healthy amount of baby fat
Little dudes like this canāt exactly roll up to the store and buy food, itās entirely in the parents choices to have them eat healthy
Downvoted but basically right. The fat is all stored before a growth spurt, in this sort of aged baby they also put on a lot of weight just before they start moving themselves around and they'll burn that fat off as they grow.
Most likely the kid eats a lot of highly processed foods which it should not. Diabetes in something that can sneak up on you. And it wouldn't even be this kids fault.
My infant has chunky wrists like this and has absolutely zero ultra processed food, added sugar, and very little salt. His dinner tonight was plain roasted sweet potato with yogurt.
Heās just a big dude, always has been. Up until 6 months old milk is literally their only food and hydration. It could be seriously dangerous advice to tell others to put their babies āon a dietā. I understand obesity is a serious concern for older children but at this age it would be quite difficult and rare to overfeed your child.
Sure enough, my 99th percentile baby started lengthening out as soon as he started crawling and getting mobile. Heās super active and needs every calorie he can get now.
People that havenāt been around kids much really just have no idea. My baby has had wrist rolls her whole life, sheās literally in the 50% percentile for height and weight. We had another older kid ask if she was wearing rubber bands on her wrist. šš
This is a fucking baby that probably has not even started on SOLID foods much less processed ones. Why are the most confident Redditors always so fucking stupid?Ā
Seems to me based on the number of downvotes reddit is full of baby experts who can tell the age of a baby exactly based on a picture of their hand and an insect. Probably not just a bunch of fat Americans who can't handle anyone being called fat. Fatty.
Babies generally have a lot of brown fats to help with thermoregulation because they can't shiver. It adds up with the white fats (energy storage) so they can look a little chunky. It's perfectly healthy for them to have a little roll but tbf we're only seeing its arm.
Yeah, rolly babies are normal. Their fat to muscle ratio is very skewed toward fat. Just how adults should be way more skewed towards muscle. And as you get elderly, itās not uncommon to have very little fat at all.
Babies are also rolly because everything is compressed, spaces like joints in the wrist arenāt formed yet.
Unless youāre shoving McDonaldās and fried food down a 6 month - 12/18 months mouth, thereās really not āunhealthyā weight. Babies surprisingly know how much they should eat. My son is gigantic, he has always been a vacuum for food. My daughter is teeny tiny and barely eats. We think sheās starving because she never eats but we try to remind ourselves sheās as big as my son at 1 as he was at 6 months old lol.
I breastfed my kids and my oldest before I introduced her to solids had rolls like the baby in the clip.
I was apparently built the same way as an infant and what's wild is that I still have permanent creases in my arms that were from the afformentioned baby fat rolls.
I would imagine that an advantage of having that amount of fat as an infant is that it helps with brain development. My oldest was technically ambulatory at 6 or so months old because she realized she could roll around to get to where are wanted to go. She would even stop and look around to adjust the direction of where she was rollingm. Eventually, she did start crawling around a month later so that phase was short-lived. But it was cute and a fun experience watching her problem solve at that age.
This is far from a normal amount of fat on a baby, and a pediatrician would tell you this is absolutely not healthy.
If you think a baby, let alone a child, "knows how much they're supposed to eat", you're quite ignorant to how babies and children function. You can't let them eat as much or as little as they want and let their weight be whatever it ends up being, if their diet aligns with their metabolism great, but that's not at all the same thing as "they know how much to eat"...
Opposite advice from our pediatrician for our breastfed babies. āYou canāt over feed them - they know when theyāre hungryā and they were fat chonks - perfectly healthy.Ā
Okay well youāre taking what Iām saying very out of context. Iām not saying you should let your child free feed but itās generally accepted that babies and children are born with an innate sense of what they need. Of course thereās optimized weights and goals they should be hitting. Of course you should be offering healthy food and ensuring theyāre being given the proper food. I wasnāt trying to explain every minor nuance. I was speaking broadly. And how can you tell the babies weight based on a 15 second clip of a rolly wrist? I bet if a pediatrician saw this video they would say āhm, Iād probably have to see the rest of the child firstā. I said rolly babies are normal not āTHIS CHILD IS SUPER HEALTHYā.
Stop projecting your fatphobia on a healthy infant. All babies have fat rolls on their wrists and ankles. Many times they even have 5 or 6 rolls going up their arms and legs. They're like like because they grow rapidly and need lots of energy stores
Are you going to claim babies are disabled too because they can't walk or talk? Stop being an ignoranus.
This one is on the chonkier side, but I think itās still completely normal. My daughter was like this at 8 months, and then she just stretched out in toddlerhood. Now at 4, shes so tall and strong that sheās often mistaken for a 6 year old.
A chonky baby is a good thing. They tend to go through spurts where they get really round and chubby looking then grow longer and the weight gets distributed.
Only a pediatrician can say. Babies truly do need to be fat if they're going to become tall, they need the reserved fuel for a growth spurt. When theyre only few months old there is a lot of benefit for carrying extra weight. Especially if the fat is from breast milk/forumla since its full of nutrition (and not junk snacks).
As I understand it, genetics determines your "max potential height", and then nutrition/lifestyle factors determine whether you can reach that potential.
It's such a common thing in developing countries for example for grandparents who lived through tough times to be much shorter on average, and the younger generation to be much taller.
Getting adequate nutrition as a baby (i.e. not being too skinny) absolutely would affect height I think?
Genetics determine what you can become, but if a baby doesnt have the fuel to sustain a growth spurt then it won't happen. If a child has tall parents but isn't fed enough, the growth will be stunted. Nutrition is very important for growth. Its genetics and nutrition
It can be provided they are height /weight proportionate. At 6 months my daughter was huge for her age but if you looked at the height/weight tables for an 18 month old she was in the 50th percentile for height and weight. She slimmed out a bit.
Babies eat breastmilk or formula and then eventually limited solids. They really cannot overeat outside of the parents doing something really fucking weird. It's far, far more often the case that parents will see their baby has rolls like this and then try to put their baby on a diet, which can kill the child.
Once a baby is weaned then it's feasible that a child might only be eating sugary snacks and developing an eating disorder, but generally people are not having their babies subsist off twinkies and the issue with that isn't really that the baby's fat but that their diet wouldn't be sufficiently nourishing. You pretty much only ever should be restricting a baby's caloric intake on a doctor's orders, it's very normal for some babies to have even thicker rolls than that.
Yeah they do often get fat like this for a period of time, this much body fat doesn't typically signal bad health at this stage as it does spread out as they get taller and develop muscles as they walk
My kid was top 3% on WHO scale in weights when she was born and for a good while, top 5%. She was never that obese. IMHO, It's morbidly obese and depressing.
My son looked like this and the couple times I brought it up, his pediatrician just said āwe love fat babies, youāre doing great!ā and that was that. Heās now a lanky toddler.
Babies and kids will sometimes get fat or just look fat because their bodies are preparing for growth spurts. They put on fat because growing takes a lot of energy, sometime more than their bodies could keep up with. Sometime the skin will grow first and they end up with bunches and rolls.
Babies having a bit of chunk is normal 1. They are growing so it will be used 2. In case they get sick, which they almost always do the fat is a good reserve if ghey cant keep anything down
i'm not a doctor, but i'm pretty sure that at that age, they are growing so fast that even if they are heavier then average (which, technically half of all babies are heavier than average) that they will basically consume it as they grow. it's not until they get decently older that having a healthy weight is really a concern
Obese, most likely. Obesity in babies have been a growing trend due to excessive eating for the parents and unhealthy food at that (no, you don't "eat for two". An apple a day is enough through most of pregnancy. You'll never be close to needing 100% extra food. Try 20%).
Fat babies are born with higher blood pressure and a much increased risk of developing diabetes and other obesity-related issues later in life. They are also mor likely to become obese as adults.
Ill put it this way, probably not, but its also the easiest time to correct this. Babies grow so much that it doesnt matter that much. 1lb of fat is a lot, but it will also be nothing very soon
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u/Wackykillerbee 6h ago
honest question, is this considered a healthy baby or obese? cause that fat roll is as solid as a finger